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Exploring the use of current events to enrich microbiology education.
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FEATURES
Jennifer A. Herzog, Herkimer County Community College, Herkimer, New York. WEB WATCH
Gary Kaiser, Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville, Maryland.
From the Editor
What’s new? What’s news? Current events can become teachable moments. We as microbiology educators have multiple domains from which to search for newsworthy items. Domains such as Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya organize the microbes we describe on the one hand, and on the other, domains such as "dot com," "dot edu," "dot gov," and "dot org" provide additional media from which to gain information for classroom discussion. How long does it take before your students show up with a newspaper clipping or a page printed from the web? Not long, I suspect.
This issue of FOME explores the use of current events to enrich microbiology education. Case histories provide a wonderful way for our students to learn about microbial diseases, for example, and much more. Karen Klyczek, Mark Bergland, and Mary Lundeberg’s article describes the use of Case It! Software to explore case histories in human immunodeficiency virus where students meet (virtual) patients, and run (virtual) ELISA tests on samples from the patients. Ruth Gyure’s article describes activities that can be used at different levels, depending on students’ academic backgrounds, to study an outbreak of Clostridium difficile. Jeffrey Pommerville addresses the issue of misinformation—can students differentiate the meat of an article from the phony baloney? Check out the scorecard.
Carlos Rios-Velazquez provides a hands-on method for students to build their own operons using Synthetic Biology to design an E. coli to detect chlorine in a contaminated sample.
Don Breakwell and Jackie Reynolds report on ASMCUE 2006 in Orlando; what an informative meeting! Plan now to join us in Buffalo, N.Y., for ASMCUE 2007.
Finally, Journal Watch and Web Watch return with some wonderful resources for your enjoyment.
Lucy W. Kluckhohn Jones
Editor—FOME
Newsmagazine Editorial Committee
Lucy W. Kluckhohn Jones, Editor, Santa Monica College
Brad Goodner, Hiram College
Ruth Gyure, Western Connecticut State University
Marie Panec, Moorpark College
Jennifer Herzog, Herkimer County Community College
Gary Kaiser, The Community College of Baltimore County
Jean Kayira, Production Editor, ASM Staff
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